October 4, 2017

from Reason: A plan by the Department of Homeland Security to collect social media information on American citizens,
including their "handles" and even their search results.Government is Watching Every Move You Make

September 9, 2017

from EFF: Don’t endanger our online communities. SESTA would swap responsibility for online posts from the individual to the web platform, providing the platform with incentives to censor. Stop SESTA.Indoctrination and Censorship

from LibertyPen YouTube Channel: Professor Williams explains how those that pretend to represent you
really strive to control you. In fact, they will kill you if necessary
to make that point.The Government is Not Us

by John W. Whitehead.Government eyes are watching you. They see your every move: what you read, how much you spend, where
you go, with whom you interact, when you wake up in the morning, what
you’re watching on television and reading on the internet. Every move you make is being monitored, mined for data, crunched, and
tabulated in ... MORE

by Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Washington Post. If there’s strong evidence that you’ve committed a crime, there’s still hope. Despite the evidence, those responsible for convicting you may choose to let you go, if they think that sending you to jail would result in an injustice. That can happen through what’s called “prosecutorial discretion,” where ... MORE

Doug Casey interview. Louis James, the editor of International Speculator, sat down with Doug Casey to discuss the ongoing “War on Cash.” Doug reveals what people looking to protect their money should do. Louis James: There have been a lot of government moves recently, making it harder for people to do business in cash. What do you think, ... MORE

by Scott Shackford.There was too much freedom going on. Thousands—perhaps tens of thousands—of New Yorkers have been saved from the terrible possibility of enjoyment and/or failure (and winning or losing money) playing daily fantasy league sports. DraftKings and FanDuel have agreed today to immediately stop allowing New Yorkers to join ... MORE

Can computerized cars drive better than we can? The cover story of Time’s March 7 issue makes “the increasingly compelling case for why you shouldn’t be allowed to drive,” claiming that computerized cars are (or, it is hoped, will be) safer drivers than humans, and so the logical thing is to ban humans from driving altogether. The plan is ... MORE

Facilitating voluntary transactions. Former Treasury secretary Larry Summers wants to get rid of the $100 bill. But I think he has it exactly backward. I think we need to restore the $500 and $1000 bills. And the reason is that people like Larry Summers have done a horrible job. Summers wrote recently in The Washington Post that the $100 ... MORE

What you don't know can hurt you.The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do. Over the past century, more than a few great writers have expressed concern about humanity’s future. In The Iron Heel (1908), the American writer Jack London pictured a world in which a ... MORE

Trump asks voters to "believe me."But why should they? Has America ever seen a more authoritarian presidential candidate than Donald Trump? Not since FDR—who seized coal mines and department stores, dictated wages and prices, and even weighed whether he should decree when Americans could eat meat. But at least FDR had a ... MORE

by Milo Yiannopoulos. Last week, a report from BuzzFeed claimed that Twitter was about to implement an algorithmic news feed, a departure from the chronologically-ordered tweets which users have grown accustomed to, and by which the platform is defined. CEO Jack Dorsey sought to calm users by saying they had no plans to implement ... MORE

No wonder Twitter stock is tanking. Twitter yesterday announced it is forming a “Trust and Safety Council,” an effort to “ensure that people feel safe expressing themselves on Twitter.” The council features “safety advocates, academics, and researchers,” “grassroots advocacy organizations” and “community groups,” all of them ... MORE

by Sara J. Berman.Choosing evidence to control the outcome. Unlike a preliminary hearing, held in court with the defense side
present, the grand jury does not make its decision in the context of an
adversary proceeding. Rather, grand jurors see and hear only what
prosecutors put before them. (Prosecutors technically have an obligation to ... MORE

by Scott Shackford. Reason has not been shy
about pointing out Donald Trump's lack of interest in liberty and
freedom in what motivates his so-far-extremely-successful campaign for
president (check out Damon Root's cover story from our December issue). That Trump would appeal to authoritarians should come as no surprise.
His campaign is ... MORE

by Steve Pociask. Does the FCC’s public utility-style regulation of wireline incumbent telephone companies (abbreviated here as ILECs)
and their legacy copper-based voice services work to protect consumers
or impede broadband competition? That is the question explored by a new American Consumer Institute study. Telephone service regulations ... MORE

by Richard Ebeling.Eroding the freedom to choose. Wherever we turn we are confronted with politicians, political pundits, television talking heads, and editorial page commentators, all of whom offer an array of plans, programs, and projects that will solve the problems of the world – if only government is given the power and authority to remake ... MORE

How Prohibition led to big government. If they think about Prohibition at all, most Americans probably accept Columbia University historian Richard Hofstadter’s conclusion that it was a farce, a “ludicrous caricature of the reforming impulse,” an ineffective albeit financially costly moral crusade imposed on a reluctant populace. Decades ... MORE